Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
The Ugley Vicar tells us that the Archbishop of Canterbury is calling Rome's bluff: For a man hardly renowned for his robustness, the recent speech given in Rome by the Archbishop of Canterbury was remarkably robust. Of course, it was given partly in response to the announcement from Rome on October 20th of effectively a …
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Evidently, as Jonah Goldberg points out, there are a few people with a sense of humour who comment on Slate: Slate magazine is just one of the countless media outlets convulsing with St. Vitus' Dance over that demonic succubus Sarah Palin. In its reader forum, The Fray, one supposed Palinophobe took dead aim at the …
Joyce Reingold at the Shiny Sheet assures us that it's so: But after a review of 2,000 AP news stories from the past year, it’s official: Florida is the weirdest news state of all. In fact, not only was The Sunshine State the biggest source of strange news, it was the “runaway winner,” according to …
For once, we're in agreement: Obama arrived on the (Osan Air) base 3:19 p.m. local time (1 a.m. Eastern Standard Time), and received a rousing welcome from 1,500 troops in camouflage uniforms, many holding cameras or pointing cell phones to snap pictures. "You guys make a pretty good photo op," the president said. Evidently the …
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David Goldman lays it out: Here’s year on year growth in commercial and industrial loans from weekly reporting banks in the US: A 20% decline year on year does not look like a recovery. In fact, it looks like nothing we have seen since the Great Depression. C&I loan growth lags the end of recessions, …
I almost overlooked this musical gem alluded to in the novel The Ten Weeks. It's Cream's "Pressed Rat and Warthog" which appeared as a single along with "Anyone for Tennis" (an appropriate subject for The Ten Weeks.) "Pressed Rat and Warthog" also appeared as the first song of the second side of the first disc …
It's good news (hopefully) for at least some of these he cleaned out: Auctioneers did better than expected during a sale of items that once belonged to Bernard and Ruth Madoff. The Saturday auction in New York, run by Gaston & Sheehan, netted $1 million for Madoff victims. The auction is part of a series …
Sure is suspicious with the timing: It's official. Fox News' Major Garrett will interview Pres. Obama at 9:20pmET tonight. He tweets: I will interview POTUS on camera Wed am here in Beijing. 4 other networks will too. 10 mins per. Many had asked. Can say now. After the ten minutes, the Great American Panel will …
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Pastor Alan Hawkins of New Life City Church in Albuquerque, NM, took exception to my post on Ted Haggard's church restart in Colorado Springs: Liberal used to mean tolerant. It is apparent that you are unaware of what has transpired with Ted Haggard in the last 3 years. You could probably have found out with …
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As a) a civil engineering professor and b) a veteran of a school superintendent search, with all of the research that went with it, I can concur that American mathematics education leaves a lot to be desired of: The statistics on U.S. math performance are grim. American eighth-graders ranked 25th out of 30 countries in …
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